Record of a Friendship

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police dog, and I do not know what to do. I would suggest the forma­
tion of a separate professional organization, apart from the Orgone
Institute. I wish to remain free from the influences of the organization
with all the aunts and grandmothers who worry about their daughters'
decency. I also have still much to fight and to pull through. Therefore
I would like to be my own master in my Institute as you are in your
School. I would only have personal assistants who help me to perform
my studies and work. I wou ld love to have your opinion on this matter.
You were the one to warn me of organization and pupils. But doctors
are streaming in for training. The doctors who are trained already are
asked to give lectures on my work. People are streaming to the few
seminars and lectures that are given by some co-workers. But also envy
and mutual hatred, together with greed are raising their heads. Can you
hel p clarify?
I would like to warn of the Communists. I don't believe them to be
basically human or truth-loving. They would kill me and you at a blink
of a Stalinist eye. And I am not sure that they won't do it actually,
when the influence of this work becomes socially powerful. They are
capable of everything. I know them well, too well, for more than 20
years now.
I am not overestimating U.S.A. But the chance for development of
the life principle is here, and not anywhere else.
It would be good to have my books published in England. If it does
not annoy you to get refused and to waste time, try, if you li ke. I feel
they will be ready to publish me very soon.
Write soon again, esp. about Zoe and Mrs. Neill and about when you
will come over.


Summerhill School
Leiston, Suffolk


My dear Reich,



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November 15, 1946

Many thanks for your good wishes for Zoe. She is a pretty kid
without a blemish on her skin. So far I don't feel possessive about her,
and won't until she begins to take notice. Luckily Ena agrees with me
that timetable feeding is the devil, and is very likely the cause of so
much modem thumb-sucking. I have two boys of 16 who have sucked
their thumbs since they came here at 5. And I wonder if there are any
statistics of malnutrition among timetable-fed babies, for during the

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